Het lijk van keizer Maximiliaan van Mexico (1867):
“the French troops began leaving Mexico City on 5 February 1867, while Maximilian remained to negotiate with Juarez to bring about peace under a government that might be arranged between the two of them. Yet already Maximilian had conceded to [the French general] Castelnau that if a congress was convened it would decide in favour of Juarez. This, he thought, would be the best solution for Mexico, which could only be constituted as a federal republic. Juarez, however, refused to negotiate, and Maximilian and his army continued to fight Juarez’s troops until May [1867]. Maximilian then decided perhaps he should leave the country, but his plans, in the end, were thwarted when one of his most trusted generals betrayed his plans to the Liberals, who demanded his unconditional surrender. A request to Juarez that he be allowed to leave the country was refused, and he and two of generals were court-martialled. At no time Juarez would meet Maximilian, his determination to destroy this foreign Empire being far greater than anyone in Europe realised. The astonishing decision of the court-martial was to sentence Maximilian and his generals to death, and on 19 June 1867, the three were executed by a firing squad.”(M. Cunningham, Mexico and the Foreign Policy of Napoleon III [New York 2001], p. 191-192)